Gift of Pratt Institute

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

The object is an unevenly shaped bowl made from a low fired ceramicware. The inside of the bowl is covered with white slip upon which has been painted a design in dark red-bown pigment. The design consists of three dancing male figures. The faces of these figures have been left white except for a black masklike band across their eyes. Their heads are decorated with cross hatching; the figures hold staffs. The rim of the bowl has several chips missing. Two drilled holes are also in the rim. There is a blind crack extending from two fragmented sections along the rim. The object was broken into three large sections in the past and repaired. The overall surface is worn.

By exchange

Frank L. Babbott Fund

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

This garter is loom woven (probably made without the use of a heddle). It is made with white and garnet pony beads on a warp of green yarn and has thread welfts. The beads are composed in a geometric pattern of rectangles and diagonal lines, opposed as chevrons. See other garters 50.67.b,c,d.shown in additional photogrpahs.

Twined cylindrical basket with false embroidery tightly woven into a fret and arrow design in red and ivory . Examined by Deborah Head, a Tlingit/Haida basket maker on 6/17/09, who mentioned that this basket has a different type of border and is important for that reason. She also said that the medium is spruce root. Condition: good.

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead